Exclaim

Quick meaning: Exclaim is a verb meaning (intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.

Meaning

(intransitive) To cry out suddenly, from some strong emotion.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To say suddenly and with strong emotion.
2. (obsolete) Exclamation; outcry, clamor.

Example Sentences

I am a soldier, and unapt to weep, Or to exclaim on fortune’s fickleness.

Very grave and good Women exclaimed against Men who begot Children and then disowned them.

[…] he could remember Sally tearing off a rose, stopping to exclaim at the beauty of the cabbage leaves in the moonlight […]

[…] her aunt, after having stared at me a good while with a look of amazement, exclaimed, “In the name of heaven! Who art thou?”—

Word Forms

• exclaims
• exclaiming
• exclaimed
• exclame

Synonyms for exclaim

Depending on context, synonyms include proclaim, cry, promulgate, shout, outcry, call out.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outcry, shout, cry, call out, promulgate, proclaim.

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